I was having a laugh at the conservative wingnuts and them trying to find the translation that suits their point of view.
Apparently they have some problems with the book they keep bashing over our heads as the true word and the American way.
I cannot get onto loonapedia conservapedia today as the server seems to have major problems. too many wingnuts proposing their inventions translations?
Shame really as posting something so off the wall should be read by the whole world, isn't the internet wonderful.
Now the whole world [when the site is working] can see just how crazy our right wing is, what with the GOP now on a world tour trashing America, its another great made in America assholery product.
Now there is an interesting Bible project going on and it has been translated in part by experts.
Codex Sinaiticus and the F*** America Project after the hop.
after the hop
Codex Sinaiticus
The project is to assemble all parts of this ancient text together in one place.
The Codex Sinaiticus is around 1600 years old.
So rather than the King James bible which is only one of 50 English translations I suggest they get to grips with this text written in Greek.
The Codex Sinaiticus Project
The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, conservators and curators, the Project gives everyone the opportunity to connect directly with this famous manuscript. [Find out more about the Codex Sinaiticus Project.]
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/...
The Codex is fascinating as it give a glimpse into Christian thought in a time not long after the founding of the church as an religious/political entity [about 325 AD with the First Council of Nicaea]
OK so if they want to do their reappraisal of the bible I suggest the start here rather than with the Imperialist King James version [snicker.]
The Septuagint includes books which many Protestant Christian denominations place in the Apocrypha. Those present in the surviving part of the Septuagint in Codex Sinaiticus are 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach.
Oh dear I see some heads on the right spinning.
Anyway Christian or not I recommend a hop over to the site if only for curiosity.
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My original diary was going to be on this:
The Fuck America Project FAP
Title dedicated in remembrance of the PNAC since this also screwed up our relations with the rest of the world.
Republicans
Please burn your Passports you do not need them, its much better in America you know:
What happens in America stays in America.
hmmmmm
No it doesn't dammit.
I will limit my comment to this as their treachery has already been diaried.
Pullz teh levah Kitteh
Alessandra.